Education
Statistics
We
at KDK-Harman Foundation have viewed many research-based educational
statistics such as these below; thus they have prompted us to
support wonderful programs that work at the root-level to improve
education across all levels. Please see the statistics below that
moved us to take action.
Did
you know?
Elementary
and Middle School
Only 29%
fourth grade public school students are proficient in reading on the
NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) (Quality Counts,
2007).
Only 31%
of fourth graders and 33% of eighth graders read at or above
proficient level on the National Assessment of Education Progress
(NAEP) (National Center for Educational Statistics,
1999).
Only
30.7% eighth grade public school student are proficient on the NAEP
(Quality Counts, 2007).
High
School
30% of
entering ninth-graders leave school without a regular high school
diploma (Sum & Harrington, 2003).
More than
half of dropouts leave school by the tenth grade (Focus Adolescent
Services, 2000).
Only
66.8% public high school students graduate with a diploma. (Quality
Counts, 2007).
Sixty-eight
percent of Americans aged 75 and older have completed high school
(U.S. Census Bureau, Educational Attainment in the
United
States: 2003,
2004).
College
Access
Only
42.1% young adults enrolled in postsecondary or earned a
postsecondary degree (Quality Counts, 2007).
The
percent of 9th graders who persist through high school to
enroll in postsecondary education four years later is only 37.5%
(Thomas Mortensen, Postsecondary Education Opportunity,
2003).
English
Language Learners (ELL)
In
2001-02, there were an estimated 3,977,819 English Language Learner
(ELL) students in grades K-12 in public schools, a 72% increase from
the 1991-92 school year (National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of
Minnesota,
September 2003).
Spanish
was the native language of 76.9% of ELL students. No other language
accounted for more than 3% of ELL students (National Center on Educational Outcomes, University of
Minnesota,
September 2003).
Science,
Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics
In the
next five years, demand for scientists and engineers will increase
at least 70% faster than the overall growth rate for all occupations
in the U.S. (National Science Foundation, Science and Engineering
Indicators, 2006).
